The stock market started the first trading session of the last week of 2023 with green color in all 3 indexes.
At 9:30 a.m., buying pressure prevailed on the electronic board, helping VN-Index increase nearly 10 points and exceed 1,110 points. The VN30 basket even had 27 increasing codes and only 1 decreasing code, helping this basket index increase by 13 points.
Retail stocks including MSN, SAB, MWG, VNM all increased sharply by 1-3%; Banking codes such as STB, VPB, TCB, SHB,… are also light green above the reference level.
VN-Index increased 14.6 points (+1.32%) to 1,117.65 points today (December 25)
Causing attention in this morning’s session is the stock code HAG of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group. At 10am, HAG increased nearly 3% to 14,000 VND/share. Temporary liquidity leads the market with more than 9 million units.
In addition to HAG stocks, securities industry stocks are also of interest to investors. The most expected story with this group of stocks is whether the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange can officially apply the KRX system in 2023?
However, near the end of the morning session, the latest information about this system has not yet been updated, however, the green color also remained in the securities group.
The group of steel stocks this morning was also quite positive, notably Pomina’s POM code was pulled up to the ceiling price. Codes HSG, NKG, VGS also increased by 2-4%, HPG increased by 1.7%.
Temporarily closing the morning session, VN-Index increased 9.2 points; HNX-Index increased 0.8 points and UPCoM-Index increased 0.3 points. The green color dominates all 3 floors as well as the VN30 basket.
Foreign trading this morning also narrowed with the net selling value on HoSE reaching more than 90 billion VND. This is also the 19th consecutive session that this block was a net seller on HoSE.
VN-Index is gradually approaching the resistance mark of 1,130 points
Entering the afternoon session, the market widened its amplitude to 12 points, reaching 1,115 points right after the break.
Specifically, the green color returned in all industry groups, with the focus of price increases recorded in real estate stocks (VHM, NVL, DIG, PDR, DXG, VIC, KBC, VCG,…) , financial groups (STB, VIX, VPB, HDB, VCB, TCB,…) transportation stocks (GMD, VOS, HAH, VTP, HVN, VIC, PVT,…).
Meanwhile, retail stocks narrowed their price increase margin at the end of the session when MWG and PNJ only increased by less than 1% margin.
Stock codes affecting the VN-Index today’s session, December 25. Source: Vietstock
Towards the end of the afternoon session, the cash flow showed signs of returning quite positively. In the securities industry stocks, APG is the most active code in the group with an increase of over 4%. In the same direction, the codes ORS, SSI, FTS, CTS are the codes that keep the green color, but the increase is not too large, around 1%.
Similarly, buyers have gradually regained the upper hand in banking stocks. In the VN30 group, banking codes all closed in an uptrend state. VPB is the most active stock in the group with a 2% increase.
In the real estate group, stocks such as DIG, CEO, HDC, DXG,… all increased in points, up to nearly 3%.
The group of steel stocks is differentiated. In which, HPG and HSG simultaneously kept their prices while NKG decreased. In addition, smaller capitalization codes such as SMC, POM, TIS,… continue to maintain good status, especially POM stock continues to maintain its ceiling increase with sudden liquidity.
In general, in the VN30 basket, VCB, MSN, and GAS are the 3 stocks that contributed the most to the market’s increase. Worth mentioning, MSN continues to be the most active stock in the group with an increase of over 5%. On the contrary, GVR decreased slightly and closed in the red.
Closing the trading session on December 25, the VN-Index continued to maintain the green color with 409 codes increasing and 78 codes decreasing. Accordingly, VN-Index closed with an increase of 14.6 points (+1.32%) to 1,117.65 points. Market liquidity increased slightly compared to last week, equivalent to 15.1 trillion VND.
HNX-Index increased 1.18 points, to 229.45 points and UPCoM-Index increased slightly above the reference.
Liquidity on all 3 exchanges today reached more than 17 trillion VND.
Foreign investors continued to be net sellers and this was the 19th consecutive session they were net sellers on HoSE, but the selling value dropped sharply to 124 billion VND. HPG shares continue to be the focus of selling volume with more than 3.5 million units.
